A counter-terrorism official told the LA Times that al-Qaeda's "planning-to-execution cycle might suggest summer is the window of choice."
A new article by national security investigative journalist John Stanton argues that "Crippling two American cities with nukes just might be in Bin Laden’s playbook," adding "And that’s very worrisome, particularly when each August 6th and 9th come around."
WTF is with all the Bin Laden talk all of a sudden, of late? NPR, The White house, New bin Laden same as the old one?
White House Gets Defensive Over Accusation Bin Laden Is Dead
Leader of Al Qaeda group in Iraq was fictional, U.S. military says
A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government
The Fake 2001 bin Laden
Video Tape
Allah on the Holodeck brought to you by Los Alamos National Laboratory "morphing" technology?
lest ye forget:
U.S. Silence Impeding Swiss in Nuclear Case
Two years after the United States helped disrupt a notorious nuclear smuggling ring, the Bush administration has hobbled a Swiss effort to prosecute three of the alleged leaders by failing to share critical information, an American nuclear expert and Swiss law enforcement officials said yesterday.
Switzerland's federal prosecutor made at least four separate appeals for U.S. help over the past year, asking for access to documents and other evidence linked to the nuclear black market run by the Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. In that time, the Swiss have received no assistance, or even a reply, a spokesman for the prosecutor said.
I have taken the liberty of e-mailing Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Joby Warrick of the "Washington Post several times in reference to the above, he has yet to reply. There has been no follow up or out cry from anywhere with regards to this dire story of nuclear blackmarket smuggling. I wonder if Billmon (if he is reading) could intercede, and get some follow up and or backstory.
Somethings up, I feel it in my bones, now would be the time I suspect, as we know all too well, the incantations these war witches conjure. They are Kings of Convenience.
Also of note: Nuke Lab Privatization Moving Forward